Realizing the Removed Actions :Shridhar Iyer

Johny ML

Between painting or any other kind of creative act there are a few silent moments of performance that often go unnoticed when the final creative product is exhibited for a larger public. These absent moments when re-enacted in a controlled and choreographed situation where improvisations are legitimized, become performance art pieces that would eventually fill in the gaps which lie embedded in painterly or sculptural works of art. There used to be locations in art history where revealing of these performative moments were not considered to be important as the supremacy of the final creative product was enough for the viewers to understand a work of art. In our new contexts of art creation, though the finality of palpable object based works of art is not discounted or challenged, it has become imperative at times for the artists to reveal the moments of performance that facilitated creation of the resultant works of art.